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Re: [romconlang] What gender are the names of letters?

Muke Tever skrev:

Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@hidden.email> wrote:

What gender are the names of letters in Romance languages?
In Latin they are neuter, so I guess they are masculine in
Romance, but you can never be sure, especially as the word
LITTERA itself is feminine...


In Latin they are often feminine themselves, probably because of
'littera'.  e.g. the Latin name for the sign for long I is "I longa".

	*Muke!


Right, I had forgot about "I longa".  Must have been the neuter
Greek letter names that confused me.  At least I had the hunch
that the gender of 'littera' had an influence...

Anyway thanks all of you who answered, I needed to know
because I decided that the name of |ç| in R3 is 'hooked c'
_c enciniade < oencineade /2ntsinead@/ < UNCÎNÂTA_.
The second _i_ is not a typo: Romance stressed *a in open
syllables undergoes breaking in R3.  If an Î follows in
the next syllable the outcome is _ie_ identical to short
E in open syllables, and if an Û follows in the next
syllable the result is _ua < oa < *Q:_.

--
/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

   "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
   it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
   means "no"!

                           (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)